Re: [Nro-comments] Isn't one ICANN more than enough?

[Frode Greisen <frode@greisen.net>]

Hi Janet,

The NRO is not a new or additional ICANN.

While the NRO would formally be a new organization it would only be a
different way of doing work already undertaken, namely communication between
ICANN and the RIRs. It would offer a different way to perform the Address
Council (AC) function, and in addition would formalize the existing
cooperation between the RIRs.

The RIRs (ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC and the RIPE NCC) have a mission to manage
IP addresses and AS numbers and as such its not their job to solve other
problems of the Internet like the one you mention. As you may have seen,
ICANN is trying to address that problem.

best regards/Frode Greisen
RIPE NCC board member

On 24/09/03 17:12, "Janet Smith" <frode@greisen.net> wrote:

> Isn't one ICANN more than enough? Do we really need yet another organisation
> that will not be able to handle things
> in the best interest of internet users? Shouldn't organisations like ARIN
> rather deal with real problems like
> Verisign's DNS wildcarding? ...
> 
> Janet
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